The small image found in the window

Anecdotes about the Virgin Mary

The small image found in the window

Cantabria (Spain)

En las verdes tierras de Cantabria se venera a la Bien Aparecida, tenida por patrona de la región. Su nombre mismo es ya un canto a la sorpresa gozosa del encuentro: la «bien aparecida», la que apareció felizmente, casi sin buscarla. Y el relato que el pueblo transmite tiene la sencillez luminosa de tantas troballas marianas: cuenta la tradición local que la pequeña imagen fue hallada por unos niños en la ventana de una ermita.

Some children discovered it in the window of the hermitage: the Well Appointed.

This finding by children's hands is the core of the devotional account, the most widespread and loved anecdote of this advocation. It has all the beauty of the stories in which the Virgin is found by the little and the humble, as often in the Marian geography of Spain. It is also the perfect image of his name: it appears, it is shown, it is seen by who least calculus and most innocence has.

As an editor I must be very prudent and honest. The sources provided for this research do not contain an institutional or journalistic source that details the chronology of the finding, the exact date and the first historical documentation of the sanctuary; nor does it contain with certainty a specific date of its main feast. Therefore, the most rigorous thing is to present this episode expressly as a local tradition, and not as a closed archival data.

Del mismo modo, sobre un posible vínculo con el Rosario, las fuentes consultadas no aportan nada específico ni documentado: no consta. Lo que permanece, firme y entrañable, es la memoria de fe de un pueblo que sigue acudiendo a aquella imagen «bien aparecida», convencido de que la Madre se asomó un día a su ventana y se quedó para siempre en el corazón de Cantabria.

Sources: local cantabra tradition collected in the popular memory and devotional dissemination about Our Lady of the Well Aparecida; in the sources provided for this research there is no institutional documentation with detailed chronology of the finding.

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